My Sons
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- Movie: My Sons
- Romaji: Musuko
- Japanese: 息子
- Director: Yoji Yamada
- Writer: Yoshitaka Asama, Makoto Shiina (novel), Yoji Yamada
- Producer: Nobuyoshi Otani
- Cinematographer: Tetsuo Takaba
- Release Date: October 12, 1991
- Runtime: 121 min
- Studio: Shochiku
- Distributor: Shochiku
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
After the death of his wife, an old man (Mikuni) begins to live alone in his old home in Iwate Perfercture. One year later, his youngest son Tetsuo (Nagase), who lives in Tokyo, returns to his old home town and begins to discuss with his brothers and sisters on how they could take care of their father.
Not long afterwards, the old man knows that his days working at a tobacco farm on his own are numbered. He sets out to Tokyo to find his two sons and try to convince them to take over. However, he finds that his eldest son Tadashi is working hand-to-mouth for his own family, and Tetsuo has fallen in love with a deaf-mute factory girl, and they are about to get married...
Cast
- Miyoko Asada - Toshiko
- Kazuyo Asari - Ayako
- Mieko Harada - Reiko
- Chosuke Ikariya
- Leonard Kuma
- Tatsuo Matsumura
- Rentaro Mikuni - Akio Asano
- Masatoshi Nagase - Tetsuo
- Ken Nakamoto
- Meiko Nakamura
- Tomoko Naraoka
- Ichiro Ogura
- Mikiko Otonashi
- Bsaku Satoh
- Casey Takamine
- Kunie Tanaka
- Ryuzo Tanaka - Tadashi
- Emi Wakui - Seiko Kawashima
